The government is mulling not to give permits to hookah bars in the state, Karnataka Health Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao said.

Chief Minister Siddaramaiah will be holding a meeting with all Members of Parliament and Union Ministers from Karnataka in the national capital on Wednesday, to discuss a host of issues concerning the state, especially the release of Cauvery river water to neighbouring Tamil Nadu.

Two youths who went fishing in the Tunga River drowned here at Kurubara Palya on Monday. 

Eight tin roofed houses were burnt, and one individual was seriously injured in a cylinder explosion that occurred at a Godown here at Anandapuram near Chamarajpet on Monday.

A decomposed body of a woman was discovered in a suitcase on Monday, in a forest area near Perumbadi check post on the Kerala-Karnataka border.

In a disturbing incident, two Dalit youths identified as Bharat (22) and Vishwanath (28), were subjected to attack and assault while urinating here at Prithvi Hotel in Changdihalli village on Sunday evening around 8:30 pm.

Four members of a family from West Bengal were found dead inside their single room accommodation at a poultry farm in Bengaluru Rural district of Karnataka, police said on Monday.

Local forest officials on Sunday arrested two individuals, identified as Sharath and Manjunath from Bharati Nagar, in the forested area of Haihole village, situated within Shivamogga district. The duo had allegedly engaged in the illegal transportation of teak logs sourced from the Shivamogga Biological Division. Concurrently, three additional suspects linked to the case remain at large.